Edward Burtynsky Quotes

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

It's my job, to create a fantasy.

I love anything that's sort of surreal and with fantasy.

I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.

A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Oui, dans mon rêve, j'étais un crayon, mais admittedly, I'd more suitably be characterized as a plump carrot.

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to.

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.

I would say that my music is surreal, it's inspired by dreams, and it's inspired by heartbreak.

I am a lifelong Moebius geek. The European approach is perfect, the art is beautiful, and the storytelling is fantastic.

I love surrealism.

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.